millet spray
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millet spray
How often can I give millet spray to my finches? Also how much should they get?
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Re: millet spray
That is a personal preference. It is a treat, so IMO it does not need to be given every day, but others do offer it every day. When you have breeding pairs raising babies and/or fledgling/weanling babies, then I would offer it every day.
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Re: millet spray
Totally agree Sally, this really is the only time I tend to feed it's if it's fed on a daily basis I find the birds gorge on it and can actually become over weight which is not good prior to the breeding season because the birds then become lethargic and not as fit as they could beSally wrote: That is a personal preference. It is a treat, so IMO it does not need to be given every day, but others do offer it every day. When you have breeding pairs raising babies and/or fledgling/weanling babies, then I would offer it every day.
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Re: millet spray
I give my guys a fresh spray every day, although they almost never wipe out the full spray. Frankly, I find they eat less of the spray on days when I mix up the veggies and give them something new. (Recently, cucumbers.) I think the spray goes beyond food and into an activity. So adding new and exciting things for them to explore and discover seems to prevent gorging on the millet.
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Re: millet spray
all my pairs are either with young fledglings or sittings on eggs so they get millet every day at the moment. Once the young uns finish moulting I would start reducing the millet then once on a maintenance diet they dont have millet sprays only what is in their seed mix.
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Re: millet spray
I tried my guys on boiled eggs and veggies for a week now and they ignore it. Why is that?
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Re: millet spray
skyjump100 wrote: all my pairs are either with young fledglings or sittings on eggs so they get millet every day at the moment. Once the young uns finish moulting I would start reducing the millet then once on a maintenance diet they dont have millet sprays only what is in their seed mix.
Spot on, agree 100 %, I use millet sprays also during the breaking season because it's a good food source for fledglings to be weaned onto hard seed being a small soft seed,skyjump100 wrote: all my pairs are either with young fledglings or sittings on eggs so they get millet every day at the moment. Once the young uns finish moulting I would start reducing the millet then once on a maintenance diet they dont have millet sprays only what is in their seed mix.
Incidentally I often soak the sprays aswell as you would with normal soak seed